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« Reply #80 on: December 10, 2010, 10:52:21 PM » |
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It's one thing to say it isn't better than the original, but quite vituperative to use the word "slaughtering"... and that's what I objected to.
What I love about this is no-one here has heard the album and yet strong opinions are being expressed!
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« Reply #81 on: December 10, 2010, 11:23:35 PM » |
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What I love about this is no-one here has heard the album and yet strong opinions are being expressed!
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« Reply #82 on: December 10, 2010, 11:25:49 PM » |
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« Reply #83 on: December 11, 2010, 02:31:57 AM » |
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...the slaughtering of a much loved favourite...
Have you actually heard this unreleased album? Name me one Fairport re-recording that is better then the original, and I will gladly eat my words. The only one to come close is Polly on the Shore, and even then I reach for the original when I want to her it. The version of Portmeirion on XXXV sounds better to my ears than the original from Expletive Delighted. The XXXV interpretation features a much stronger bass line, flute from guest Ian Anderson, percussion instead of keyboards, and a fine mandolin solo. |
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« Reply #84 on: December 11, 2010, 09:14:34 AM » |
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Porteirion was never a 'much loved favourite' with me anyhow!
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« Reply #85 on: December 11, 2010, 09:31:39 AM » |
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What I love about this is no-one here has heard the album and yet strong opinions are being expressed!
Because we have heard several of the songs live and know the source of others, a certain perversely initialled female songwriter amongst them. That's what made my heart sink. "The Crowd" as a Fairport classic anyone? |
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« Reply #86 on: December 11, 2010, 09:37:13 AM » |
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What I love about this is no-one here has heard the album and yet strong opinions are being expressed!
Because we have heard several of the songs live and know the source of others, a certain perversely initialled female songwriter amongst them. That's what made my heart sink. "The Crowd" as a Fairport classic anyone? Well you haven't heard all of them!  C |
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« Reply #87 on: December 11, 2010, 12:37:47 PM » |
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...the slaughtering of a much loved favourite...
Have you actually heard this unreleased album? Name me one Fairport re-recording that is better then the original, and I will gladly eat my words. The only one to come close is Polly on the Shore, and even then I reach for the original when I want to her it. The version of Portmeirion on XXXV sounds better to my ears than the original from Expletive Delighted. The XXXV interpretation features a much stronger bass line, flute from guest Ian Anderson, percussion instead of keyboards, and a fine mandolin solo. Yes, I agree. However, I am slightly biased as that version of Portmeirion has got a helluva lot to answer for! |
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« Reply #88 on: December 11, 2010, 12:49:44 PM » |
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"Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose any more."
Ouch! I feel like I've just been told off by teacher for talking in class. It was a joke, I admit badly put, based on the fact that expectations can affect how you react to something when you finally experience it. If you expect a thing to be awful & it's not, you like it more than if you expected great things, but it didn't quite reach the mark. I was suggesting jokingly (& badly) that all the people who have been condemning the new album without even hearing it (& I'm NOT one of them) were trying to protect themselves by giving it a chance to be better than their expectations. |
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« Reply #89 on: December 11, 2010, 12:53:49 PM » |
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What I love about this is no-one here has heard the album and yet strong opinions are being expressed!
Because we have heard several of the songs live and know the source of others, a certain perversely initialled female songwriter amongst them. That's what made my heart sink. "The Crowd" as a Fairport classic anyone? Well you haven't heard all of them! C Point taken! And I am sure your contribution will be one of the highlights though I would rather hear you play it! |
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« Reply #90 on: December 11, 2010, 07:17:45 PM » |
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"Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose any more."
Ouch! I feel like I've just been told off by teacher for talking in class. It was a joke, I admit badly put, based on the fact that expectations can affect how you react to something when you finally experience it. If you expect a thing to be awful & it's not, you like it more than if you expected great things, but it didn't quite reach the mark. I was suggesting jokingly (& badly) that all the people who have been condemning the new album without even hearing it (& I'm NOT one of them) were trying to protect themselves by giving it a chance to be better than their expectations. Dave, I wasn't serious, merely being silly and using quotes from 2001 - A Space Odyssey! |
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« Reply #91 on: December 11, 2010, 07:39:02 PM » |
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« Reply #92 on: December 11, 2010, 08:14:39 PM » |
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Dave, I wasn't serious, merely being silly and using quotes from 2001 - A Space Odyssey!
I haven't seen that film since around 1972!!! LOL I think I was nervous about people not "getting", my comment anyway & was half-expecting to be called up on it. LOL |
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« Reply #93 on: December 25, 2010, 01:01:31 PM » |
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Which format do you think the album packaging is more likely to be? Considering a lot of Fairport's releases in the last couple of years have been Digipack, I would probably think that, but SoO was Jewel Case, as were all the studio CD releases prior to that.
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« Reply #94 on: December 25, 2010, 01:05:25 PM » |
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Which format do you think the album packaging is more likely to be? Considering a lot of Fairport's releases in the last couple of years have been Digipack, I would probably think that, but SoO was Jewel Case, as were all the studio CD releases prior to that.
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« Reply #95 on: January 06, 2011, 11:48:24 PM » |
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« Reply #96 on: January 07, 2011, 12:00:52 AM » |
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Just been listening to all the clips. Doesn't sound too bad, though more folk than rock. Red Shoes track Celtic Moon seems to work well, though it is a wonderful track and I do prefer Caz's vocals.
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« Reply #97 on: January 07, 2011, 12:01:42 AM » |
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Hmmm. Sounds from the clips as though it could lose 3 or 4 tracks. Simon sounding strangely like the lead singer from Great Big Sea on a couple of vocals. Potentially one of their stronger recent efforts though subject to appropriate use of the skip button. |
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« Reply #98 on: January 07, 2011, 12:07:01 AM » |
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It reminded me, oddly, a lot of Jewel in the Crown, especially the funky bass from Deep Egg on Albert & Jack.
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« Reply #99 on: January 07, 2011, 12:14:13 AM » |
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Jane will be happy. She guessed "Celtic Moon" over my "Something Wicked". I'll go have a listen.
Edit - Pleasantly surprised, quite like the sound of tracks 1 and 5
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